4.58m (22.1%)

Week-on-week comparisons are good:

Monday 13: 7.88m (32.3%)
Monday 06: 7.90m (32.1%)

Tuesday 14: 7.63m (34.9%)
Tuesday 07: 7.78m (34.3%)

Wednesday 15: 6.67m (28.7%)
Wednesday 08: 6.67m (27.2%)

Thursday 16: 7.59m (35.4%)
Thursday 09: 7.33m (32.7%)

Share is up every day this week compared to last week. It's going to be so difficult to claw back the lost EastEnders audience. I stopped watching it years ago and to be honest I've got no intention of starting to watch again, however good it is. Four episodes a week is simply too big a commitment.

Astonishing performance from Ronnie O'Sullivan in the snooker (BBC2, British Eurosport), first man ever to get 500 straight points without reply.
Heading for a finish with hours to spare (last night's Selby vs Higgins was a classic so they may repeat that).

Delighted at that Brooklyn Nine-Nine rating. Hope it holds up, or certainly doesn't lose too much. Having watched already at US pace, it's a fantastic show.

People fit in a lot of TV if it's engaging. Very difficult to get back lapsed viewers no matter what the genre of programme. Sometimes you never do get them back which is the bigger worry.

I wanted the bet storyline to last all season, but can understand why it got wrapped up now

I actually think that may be the view of many many others out there. They become part of the routine and once you break it you require some effort and as you say commitment to get into it again.

I'd obviously recommend it but that's not going to make any difference to you and people in you similar position. However if people like you stumble across of watch the odd episode then I would say the show is a lot healthier. Casual audience and all that.

Nice comparisons as you say. Pretty darn good thursday rating.

Extraordinary. I will have to watch the highlights.

So timeshift is now irrelvant is it Samuel, Robbie? What a surpise. Comedy on any channel should be a good thing for goodness sake, get over your bias hatred of ITV and actually make some prper worthwhile posts.

Super timeshift for Silent Witness and also fab for Birds. That's a good rating, Benidorm also nearing 7million (although the overnight is dissapointing).

Except you yourself said on Tuesday....


The problem with timeshift for ITV is how many people fast-forward through the commercials, the source of most of ITV's revenue. Even my 70+ year old mum ff's the commercials in a recording and she's not very tech savvy at all.

Although, you could argue ITV also have, and always have had, a problem with live viewing - when people use the commecial break to see what's on the other channels or make a pot of tea or go to the bathroom or text their pals or anything except watch the commercials that provide most of ITV's revenue.

Anyway, the ITV comedies are still delivering good ratings by today's standards. Birds progress is totally predictable and Benidorm is suffering from tougher competition this year. And what about that timeshift for last Thursday's Silent Witness? I doff my cap to this programme. It must be the most resilient one on television. A lot of people are mystified by its continual success, including me AND I WATCH IT!!!

I can't believe I just read a Steve Williams post which contains the words "I can't remember".



I might go and read it again just to make sure!

Nothing over 9 million is pretty poor to be honest but i guess the days of must see tv are long gone.

As for last night again all it is highlighting is the mere fact that folk even on cold wet january nights are preferring to do other things.

Channel 5 +24 is confirmed. It'll broadcast between 7pm and midnight, the rest of the time they're filling it with teleshopping.

What a pointless waste of a Freeview channel.


I think that's exactly it. Once it's out of your routine it takes effort to get it back in to your routine.

Personally I think going down to three days would help it. 5 days a week certainly won't win back the casual audience. But I'd imagine that's very unlikely to happen.

The less we hear from that tax cheat the better, awful excuse for an actress.

Be fair at least they are putting out some programming, the amount of tits 'n' text channels are an utter disgrace, and the likes of peace tv should be axed

Hidden Kingdoms was superb. But, it may not have appealed simply because of wildlife overkill. There has been Dolphins: spy in the Pod, Weird Nature and Brazil and now Hidden Kingdoms. Can the BBC really expect the audience to engage in so much wildlife considering it's only just entered the third week of the New Year?

So true!

It would get a lower audience and exposure. Putting it at 9pm shows they aren't showing weakness against the competition, simply shoving it to 10pm might seem that way. I think C4 are right to be competitive, they are probably denting CBB a little. Though, this series of CBB has been particularly brilliant! A lot more, if you say, talk and press about it!

Channel 5 +24 launching in February. Appears to broadcast shows from 7pm onwards on Channel 5... the next day. And appears to be replacing 5*+1.

OMG.

Great thats all I need.

I would have called it "The Yesterdays Channel 5 Television Programs 24 Hours Later Precisely, There still shit Channel"

Or it could be the "Don't worry mum you haven't missed Neighbors,it's on tomorrow, catch is you will miss the next one at the same time HD Channel"

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/...t-picture.html

I missed the announcement for this. I'm giddy with excitement and can't wait - Twenty Twelve was one of my favourite shows in 2012. Only four episodes though.

Really? For Christmas Day or for Christmas? Because surely they could not fit a 90 minute Sherlock into the Christmas Day schedule without moving at least Call the Midwife, and possibly other programmes. Not to mention having 2 and a half hours of Steven Moffat on one day (assuming they keep last year's top Christmas drama Doctor Who on Christmas Day) would seem a bit much. In any event, haven't recent Christmas ratings shown they need more comedy on Christmas Day, not even more drama?

Thursday 16 January 2014

BBC One
13:45 Doctors: 1.59m (22.2%)
19:00 The One Show: 4.58m (22.1%)
19:30 EastEnders: 7.59m (35.4%)
*BBC Three repeat: 0.43m (3%)
20:00 Hidden Kingdoms: 3.41m (14.4%)
21:00 Silent Witness: 5.48m (22.6%)
*Up +0.22m week-on-week. +1.4% share.
22:35 Question Time: 2.56m (21.6%)

BBC Two
20:00 The Great Sport Relief Bake Off: 4.26m (18%)
21:00 Wild Brazil: 1.90m (7.8%)
22:00 Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe: 1.14m (6.1%)
*Retained most of last week's audience, -0.04m and same share.

ITV
19:00 Emmerdale: 6.69m (32.3%)
20:00 Emmerdale: 6.75m (29.5%); 6.87m (30%) inc.+1
20:30 Birds of a Feather: 5.93m (24.5%); 6.17m (25.5%) inc.+1
*Down -0.84m week-on-week, -3% share, but top-rated show of the day.
21:00 Benidorm: 4.60m (18.9%); 5.15m (22.2%) inc.+1
*Down -0.69m week-on-week, -2.4% share, lowest rated so far of current series.

Channel 4
18:30 Hollyoaks: 1.04m (5.2%)
20:00 Supersize vs Superskinny: 1.01m (4.3%); 1.16m (4.9%) inc.+1
*Down -0.43m week-on-week, -1.8% share.
21:00 The Undateables: 1.54m (6.4%); 2.08m (9.6%) inc.+1
*Down -0.46m week-on-week, -1.6% share. But strong timeshift
22:00 What Happens in Sunny Beach: 1.07m (6.4%); 1.37m (9.7%) inc.+1
*Up on last week's premiere, +0.15m, +1% share.

Channel 5
13:15 Home and Away: 0.25m (3.4%)
13:45 Neighbours: 0.72m (10.1%)
17:30 Neighbours: 0.82m (5.1%)
18:00 Home and Away: 0.69m (3.8%)
*5* first look: 0.50m (2.5%)
21:00 Celebrity Big Brother: 2.11m (8.7%); 2.45m (10.7%) inc.+1
*Up week-on-week in total viewers +0.14m, and +0.8% share.
22:00 Botched Up Bodies: 0.91m (5.4%)
*Down week-on-week in total viewers -0.37m and -2% in share.

Multichannels

E4
19:00 Hollyoaks: 0.85m (4.1%); 0.98m (4.7%) inc.+1
20:30 The Big Bang Theory: 1.43m (5.9%); 1.77m (7.3%) inc.+1
21:00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine: 0.80m (3.3%); 1.07m (4.7%) inc.+1
21:30 2 Broke Girls: 0.50m

BBC Three
21:00 Tough Young Teachers: 0.53m (2.2%)
*Down week-on-week -0.21m in viewers, -0.8% share.

Source(s): Digital Spy, people who posted figures

I always felt Channel 5 itself was a pointless waste of a Freeview channel!

I agree. Eldorado would probably be a disaster if it came back, but I can see why some people remember it fondly, because it was really good for its final six months: much better than EastEnders was at the time.

Jonathan Powell made a huge mistake with Eldorado: bringing the launch forward by two months from September to July, to avoid ITV's autumn 7pm hits (which ITV promptly moved forward to July, anyway). But, there was also a second, much bigger mistake (which Powell might also have been involved in): signing everyone up on one-year contracts with an option of a further two, which meant Alan Yentob wasn't in a position to extend it for another six months after the first year, to see if the vast improvements in quality would result in a ratings uplift. There was no way he could risk commiting to another two years.